Oct. 12, 2017, 9:18 a.m.

The mayor of San Juan responded to President Trump's tweets Thursday morning in which he blamed Puerto Rico for its problems and insisted that he had little patience for the years-long effort that will be required to repair the U.S. territory.

"We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!" he said in one tweet.

He blamed the island for "a total lack of accountability" in a pair of tweets and quoted a conservative journalist who invoked the island's financial crisis as a problem "of their own making."

During a White House event last week, President Trump said his administration is "marshaling every federal resource at our disposal" and "will not rest until that job is done" to help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild following the devastation wrought from Hurricane Maria.

That didn't last long.

By Thursday, even as the death toll has risen above 40 and the majority of the island remained without power, Trump seemed to have had enough of all that. He blamed Puerto Rico for its problems and insisted that he had little patience for the years-long effort that will be required to repair the U.S. territory.

Oct. 12, 2017, 4:15 a.m.

There are many paths to the presidency, most of them a standard climb from one elected office to the next.

A whole passel of lawmakers have cycled their way through a governorship or the U.S. Senate en route to the White House. Others arrived with less buttoned-down backgrounds. There have been war heroes, a former haberdasher, a onetime movie actor.

And then, of course, there is the current occupant whose resume — real estate developer, beauty pageant promoter, conspiracy monger, reality TV celebrity — comprises a category all its own.

President Trump hardened his conditions for approving legal status for young immigrants brought to this country illegally, insisting Wednesday that before he would back new protections for them, Democrats would have to back funding for a border wall and other security measures.

After a mid-September meeting with Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Trump had said he favored a targeted, bipartisan solution for the so-called Dreamers, until recently protected by an Obama administration directive called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that Trump began phasing out this month. “The wall will come later,” he said then.

Earlier this week, his administration put forth a series of hard-line conditions Democrats strongly oppose, prompting Pelosi and Schumer to issue a joint statement suggesting he’d reneged on his tentative deal with them. Trump reiterated Wednesday that the wall — detested by Democrats, and some border Republicans — remained a priority before any DACA deal could be reached.

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Oct. 11, 2017, 4:42 p.m.

Saying she was "sick," "shocked" and "appalled" by news of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual predation, Hillary Clinton said in an interview Wednesday that she would donate to charity the money he had contributed to her campaign.

In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Clinton said she had no idea about Weinstein's behavior until the revelations in recent days that led to his ouster from the company that bears his name.

"I certainly didn't, and I don't know who did," she said. "Like so many people who've come forward and spoken out, this was a different side of a person who I and many others had known in the past."

Oct. 11, 2017, 11:52 a.m.

Kirstjen Nielsen, shown here with her boss, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, is expected to be nominated as secretary of Homeland Security. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

The White House will nominate Kirstjen Nielsen, a top aide to Chief of Staff John Kelly, to take over the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Homeland Security official.

The appointment of Nielsen likely would represent a continuation of the policies of Kelly. The retired Marine general won Trump’s praise for his tough approach to immigration enforcement during his six months running the department.

The sprawling department includes the agencies responsible for policing borders and immigration, a central focus for the Trump administration, including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), siding with the National Rifle Assn., said Wednesday he prefers limiting "bump stocks" used in the Las Vegas massacre through administrative action, rather than legislation.

The GOP leader's approach largely reflects that of the NRA, which announced a surprise willingness after the Las Vegas shooting to consider limits on the devices that can essentially turn assault rifles into automatic weaponry.

"His commitment to public service and vast experience in the healthcare field will help guide the department as we advance President Trump’s agenda on behalf of the American people," Wright said in a statement on Hargan's appointment.